I’ve put all settings down to medium in MSFS, tried to “optimize” settings with GeForce experience, and I’m getting 20fps average on the main screen. Something has got to be wrong, right?
here’s a link to the laptop I bought so you can see the specs. please let me know what screens or info I need to share in order to help get this running. I thought for sure this machine would be able to handle this sim.
https://www.razer.com/gaming-laptops/Razer-Blade-15/RZ09-0421PEF3-R3U1
Thanks in advance
Start there with the process of removing bloatware.
I guess I could, but for what I paid for this thing, I don’t feel like I should have to remove things from a brand new laptop to make this game run.
I’ve got a 2018 Advanced Model and it runs the sim at 30 FPS without too much drama.
Some things I’ve noted:
• Set the display refresh rate to 60 Hz — this is done via the Synapse software under the Performance tab
• On the same tab, try leaving the system in Balanced mode rather than Gaming mode — while your system is far more powerful than mine, the issue with Gaming is the overclocking will spike your temperatures
• Set the sim to run at 30 FPS under Options Graphics — yes, on paper you should be able to see far more performance (aka FPS) given your specs, but start here to get a baseline of performance
• As stated don’t use GeForce
Start with these and see if you can get some performance stability.
You don’t have to remove GeForce, but just don’t allow it to optimize your settings. Go into its settings and toggle off the automatic function. I found GeForce to not be smart enough to make my setting configurations work well and have gone with setting them on my own.
I’ve ultimately uninstalled it, because I wasn’t needing it and didn’t want the overhead of it always running in the background.
Thanks guys. I’ll give that a try and see what happens
Another thing to note.
I don’t know if you’re entirely new to this sim or not, but this forum is filled with threads with frustrated high-end PC owners suffering from performance below their expectations.
The sim has issues of its own that have very little to do with the capabilities of high-end hardware.
For one, it’s built on old Flight Simulator X code, which doesn’t utilize DX12. They are working to get the sim brought up to modern architecture coding standards, but it is happening in small steps.
Knowing this, you will find that adjusting your Level of Detail (LoD or LOD) will be the biggest contributing factor (currently) in affecting performance of the sim. Try setting the Terrain Level of Detail at a very low point and start sneaking it back upwards until you start seeing the onset of FPS and/or stuttering issues.
Again, this is why the “optimization” function of something like GeForce isn’t going to work well. It’s not going to understand this.
For the record, my Blade is running the High-End Graphics settings and I’ve turned down the Terrain LoD default of 100 to 50. You should definitely be able to get more out of the sim than me.
Thanks @NixonRedgrave . Not new to the sim, however I just recently reinstalled and I would say it’s been about a year. I poked around with VR with my reverb g2 when it was released, and just gave up. I got tired of constantly tinkering with settings rather than just flying.
This may be dumb of me, but I was attempting to run the sim without the laptop plugged in to power. Figured it should be the same, right? however I plugged in, and I can get around 30-35fps on high end settings in game. perhaps when not plugged to power this laptop is tuning down some performance items?
Yes, GeForce has probably got you detuned for battery power. You might need to mess about with those settings and/or take a look at the Windows battery power settings, too.
Frankly, I’d not run on battery power. I just got a new battery for my Blade and I can’t last long, at all, on battery. It’s basically pointless to do so.
I’d also really recommend a stand to get better airflow to the fan intakes on the bottom of the case. I bought the Razer stand with the LEDs. It’s got a three-port USB, too.
I have a 2020 Razer and don’t have issues. Looks like you’re on the right track with the other comments. Definitely do NOT run MSFS on battery, it’s just not possible. Synapse will throttle the CPU/GPU heavily.
For what it’s worth, I’ll recommend what others have. Synapse to Balanced mode, screen to 60hz, fan for cooling.
One thing I will add that I haven’t seen yet, if you’re comfortable with computers, check out Throttlestop. It can undervolt your CPU to help with temps as well as limit frequencies to keep MSFS FPS steady. I can fly for hours with 30fps and no stuttering on High with a handful on Ultra. The only thing I can’t push up are the LODs. They stay at 100.
Maybe it helps also to know that ultra settings really don’t make that difference - after I saw that I turned down settings on my ryzen 5/1660Ti laptop and my ryzen 7/5800 / RTX 3070 box aswell (2 monitors 2560x1080 / 1920 x 1200 connected) with fluid results seldomly under 45 fps (box) and 32 fps (laptop).
You are probably:
Running game in native 4k (consider reducing render scaling to ~80).
Not using performance mode in Razer Synapse.
I took delivery of my new laptop last week, the ASUS ROG Strix, Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, 17.3 Inch Gaming Laptop and I’ve been amazed at how well it runs MSFS2020. In balanced mode and pre set High End settings it’s holding over 50fps everywhere including over London and New York with only the occasional micro stutter. It looks beautiful on the WQHD 2560 x 1440 screen. My pc has a 5800x and old 1080ti card and doesn’t perform anything like as well although I am driving a 3440x1440 curved monitor. Sure, the laptop gets a bit hot but as others have said, a pad with in built fans can help.
That monitor is the anchor dragging your PC setup but I bet it looks glorious.
The anchor is the power-restricted 3080. Thos thin 15" laptops limit the wattage to 70W even plugged in. It can drop to 45W on battery. No one should ever buy a thin laptop and expect ultra settings to run about 20fps in MSFS.
I have an MSI GT76 with a 2080 running at 200W max. The rig is massive and weighs almost 12 pounds. It has a massive 330W dual power adapter. It runs MSFS at 30-40fps on ultra but with massive fan noise. It also has a desktop i9 10-series CPU running at 4.8GHz. I also have a Gigabyte Aorus thin laptop that looks like it is equal to the MSI, but with an H CPU. It has a 120W power adapter and the 2080 runs limited to 70W. It runs MSFS on ultra around 15-20fps. So when you look for a laptop for MSFS, check the max power on the GPU and also check the CPU. Physics around power, heat, and physical size mean something.
So the short of it is to set proper expectations for a thin laptop having the power and thermal capability to run MSFS on ultra.
@OliveCrown84378 I can’t even play Warzone without my laptop plugged in.
Yes, you HAVE to plug your laptop in to get the full performance out of it, without it plugged Windows basically puts everything on, use as little power as possible mode. You can imagine your GPU and CPU trying to run MSFS with as little power as possible. You should go even further, go into your power plan and make sure that when it’s plugged in it’s running in performance or ultimate performance
Also, see if enabled “Game Mode” helps at all. This setting turns things off in the background when you’re playing games and flying planes.
You could update your power settings to do the same when not plugged in. You’ll have enough battery for about 20-30 min 
If this doesn’t help at all or very little, let me know. There are other settings you can adjust in MSFS if you know what’s slowing down more, CPU or GPU.
Mate, I have a laptop also, RTX 3070 and i7 10870H, I had the same issue, what i recommend you to do is to change it to directx11 on FS2020 configuration menu and change Anti-Aliasing from NVIDIA DLSS SUPER RESOLUTION to TAA, you can run everything on ultra, it will run fine, trust me.
